4 August 1860

Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alfred Edmund Burr

Stevens, writing as chairman of the National Democratic Executive Committee, transmits an article (not included) for publication in the Hartford Times, a Connecticut newspaper. Instructs Burr, Times founder and publisher, to publish his enclosed article immediately. Written on National Democratic Executive Committee stationery containing a printed endorsement for John C. Breckenridge as President and General Joseph Lane for Vice President in the upper left corner. Stevens was governor of the Territory of Washington from 1853 to 1857, and served in the U.S. Congress from 1857 to 1861. During…

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circa 1861-1865

Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862

Photograph

Title: As major general with staff of seven

Image shows General Steven seated in the center of seven of his staff standing around him. They are on a house porch. Imprint on recto "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by M. B. Brady, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Disctrict of Coumbia." Photographers imprint on verso: "Brady's Album Gallery. No. 163. General Stevens and Staff, Beaufort, S. C. The Photographs of this series were taken directly from nature, at considerable cost. Warning is therefore given that legal proceedings will be at one instituted against any party infringing on the…

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circa 1861-1865

Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862

Photograph

Title: Group of officers and two African-American workers

Image shows a group of six artillery officers posed on the front porch of General Stevens' house in Beaufort, South Carolina. In front of the porch stand two African-American workers, one is holding the reins of a horse, which is in the center of the photo. Imprint on recto "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by M. B. Brady, in the Clerk's Offic of the District Court of the District of Columbia." Graphite inscription on verso "Genl. Stevens house, at Beaufort."

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1860

Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862

Pamphlet

Title: Minority report of Mr. Stevens, delegate from Oregon, showing the grounds upon which the regular southern delegation...

Title continues, " ... were entitled to seats in the convention at the Front Street Theatre, Baltimore. Mr. Leach's protest against the exclusion of their delegates." Issued by the National Democratic Executive Committee. Marked, "Breckinridge and Lane campaign documents, no. 2."

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8 August 1860

Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alexander R. Boteler

On committee letterhead, Stevens, as Chairman of the National Democratic Executive Committee writes to Boteler as Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Constitutional Union Party. Requests copies of campaign literature circulating. Letterhead of the National Democratic Committee is printed with John C. Breckinridge for President, and Gen. Joseph Lane for Vice President. Boteler was a U.S. congressman from Virginia (1859-1861). During the Civil War, he served in the Confederate Army as a member of Stonewall Jackson's staff. He was elected from Virginia to the Confederate…

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5 July 1862

Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alfred F. Sears

Informs Sears that his "company and effects will be embarked on the Holmes." Two weeks after the Union defeat at the battle of Seccesionville they began evacuating James Island, just off the coast from Charleston. Sears company was sent out on the ship Holmes. Sears is addressed as a colonel, when in fact he was a captain.

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August 8, 1860

Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Blood

Stevens, chairman of the National Democratic Executive Committee, garners support for the Democratic Party prior to the 1860 Presidential election. He informs Blood, a customs collector at Newburyport, Massachusetts, that the organizers of an upcoming Democratic event must distribute documents and make provision for speakers. He instructs Blood to send his donation to General Whitney, Customs Collector of the Port of Boston. Letter written on National Democratic Executive Committee stationery. On the top left side of this document, a printed notice advocates John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky…

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